Aflatoxin is a highly toxic substance, of which aflatoxin B1 is the most toxic and carcinogenic among aflatoxins. In this paper, the team used homemade CdSe/Zns quantum dots to construct a fluorescent immunoprobe and all-antigen coupling with aflatoxin B1. It used a self-developed fluorescence intensity detector to detect aflatoxin B1 in five traditional Chinese medicines, namely, ginseng, Panax ginseng, Chuanxiong rhizome, rhubarb, and yam. The recoveries were 80.0-102.0%; the relative standard deviations (RSD)were from 2.4 to 9.2.
Keywords: aflatoxin B1; quantum dots; traditional Chinese medicines.